The fact is, however, that at least a dwarf type of mammoth must have been around some 1500 years before Christ, even by conventional dating.

The photo here (available in Creation magazine) is
of a painting in the tomb of Rakh-Mara in the Valley of the Nobles.1
A photo of the same figure also appeared in the prestigious science journal
Nature in 1994.2

The tomb relief is about the ivory trade. The Nature
item says that the creature is ‘not an immature elephant because
of its large tusks’ but its features (including the domed skull)
are ‘more like a reconstruction of a living mammoth than an immature
elephant.’

Egyptian artists were skilled at life-like depictions of animals from which one could scientifically identify them.

The author points out that Egyptian artists were skilled
at life-like depictions of animals from which one could scientifically
identify them. He thus identifies the bear in the picture as a sub-species
of Ursus arctos. Although it is possible that the representation
is of a pygmy version of the mammoth, since the man is carrying tusks
on his shoulder, he says it is possible that the animal could be ‘symbolic
of the ivory’s source rather than intended to be an accurate representation
of its size’. This would indicate that the artist likely knew what
living full-size mammoths looked like.

Keith Eltringham, a Cambridge University biologist, in his
book Elephants, carefully studied the amount of trade in mammoth
ivory and concluded ‘remains are so plentiful that it is tempting
to wonder if its demise was not more recent … Altogether, it is
estimated that the tusks of at least 45,000 mammoths from Siberia have
been sold in the past 300 years.’3

When I brought the photographic evidence to the Cairo museum in Egypt, the authorities had never thought of the implications of a mammoth painted on the walls of an Egyptian tomb. This sort of find adds weight to the many other items of evidence (such as rock drawings of dinosaurs4) which indicate that the dates attributed to the extinction of many well known creatures have been substantially skewed by evolutionary/long-age thinking. The real history of the world, according to the Word of God, would indicate that all such extinctions—even the Ice Age5 itself—occurred in the last few thousand years.

Footnotes

The Rakh-Mara tomb is one of the largest of the 18th Dynasty. He
served under both Tutmose III and Amon Ofis (Amenoptis) II. Bonechi,
All of Egypt, Centro Stampa Editoriale Bonechi, Florence, Italy,
p. 92, 1995.

For a good perspective on the Ice Age, see Tackling
the Big Freeze, Creation19(1):42–43, December
1996–February 1997. The same issue has photos (pp. 10–13)
of living elephants with classic mammoth features.